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title: "Bulk Chilli Sauces and Pastes: Scoville, Brix and Packaging — LiangduSyrup"
url: "https://liangdusyrup.com/bulk-chilli-sauces-and-pastes-scoville-brix-and-packaging/"
date: 2026-09-27
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# Bulk Chilli Sauces and Pastes: Scoville, Brix and Packaging

Chilli sauce and paste are staple ingredients for snack, ready-meal and food-service manufacturers. Buying them in bulk is straightforward once the specification captures what actually drives taste and cost.

The numbers that matter
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- **Heat level:** expressed in Scoville or a practical scale; consistency matters more than the headline figure.
- **Brix and solids:** body, sweetness and yield.
- **Salt and acidity:** taste and preservation.
- **Viscosity:** how the sauce pumps, coats and disperses.

Fresh versus processed
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Pastes and sauces may be made from fresh or processed chilli, fermented or not, and thickened with starch or gums. Each choice changes flavour and cost, so agree the process as part of the spec, not just the final analysis.

**Practical tip:** keep a sensory reference and re-taste every lot; chilli heat perception drifts with crop and processing.

Packaging and handling
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Bulk sauces ship in drums, IBCs or flexitanks. Colour and heat can degrade with light and heat, so store cool and dark. Confirm shelf life under your conditions, not the supplier’s ideal ones.